Kerwin Okoro transfers to Rutgers men's basketball

4:53 PM,
May 13, 2013

Written by

Jerry Carino
| @njhoopshaven

The backcourt replenishment project continued for Rutgers men's basketball Monday when Iowa State shooting guard Kerwin Okoro decided to transfer to the Scarlet Knights.

The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Okoro is a Bronx native and former star at city power St. Raymond who decided to return to the metropolitan area after a difficult year with the Cyclones.

He appeared just nine games as a freshman, averaging 1.0 points as he dealt with two deaths in his immediate family - his 28-year-old brother succumbed to colon cancer in February and his father died of a stroke in December. ...